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Fedora Linux KDE Spin Is Switching to the Calamares Graphical Installer

Posted by Marius Nestor on Sep 04, 2023,

updated Sep 05, 2023

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Fedora Asahi Remix is using Fedora Project’s KDE Spin as a base, featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Right now, the Fedora KDE Spin is using the Anaconda installer, just like all the other Fedora Linux editions.

According to the release notes, this functionality is also used to more accurately report the number of frames that are actually being presented via DXGI frame statistics. Additionally, on systems where the VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1 Vulkan extension is supported, there’s no longer a need for recreating the Vulkan swap chain to enable and disable vertical synchronization.

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The Register:

Fedora and Asahi Linux pals revamp installation process

↺ Fedora and Asahi Linux pals revamp installation process

> According to a Mastodon post from one of the project leads, Hector Martin, the Asahi project's upcoming Fedora-based release for Apple Silicon Macs will use the Calamares cross-platform installer.

> Last month, the Asahi project announced it was switching to Fedora for the first native Arm64 distro for M1 and M2 Mac hardware. The flagship desktop is going to be KDE Plasma, which is a departure from Fedora's default GNOME. Now it looks like the installer will be different too. Quite a few distros use Calamares – we have mentioned its use in the Snap-free Xubuntu, Zinc, OpenMandriva Rome, and even the officially sanctioned Lubuntu flavor.

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